release-mcp-version

release-mcp-version is a skill for Claude Code from selic/skills. It costs 146 tokens per session (1,830 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release checklist for publishing a new version of an existing MCP server. MCP servers connect coding agents to tools or data, and this workflow updates their version files before publishing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to bump versions, land the change on the main branch, create a tag, and trigger publication to npm, the MCP registry, GitHub releases, and optionally a container image.
Why use it?
It keeps version numbers aligned across the package and release metadata, reducing mistakes when creating a tagged release and starting the publishing pipeline.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the selic-skills plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to bump versions, land the change on the main branch, create a tag, and trigger publication to npm, the MCP registry, GitHub releases, and optionally a container image.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add selic/skills
Claude Code
/plugin install selic-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install selic-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 146 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,830 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00146 $0.01830
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.00915
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00366
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00183

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6721debc6218, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-mcp-version scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (bump.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/release-mcp-version/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release a new MCP-server version

Incremental-release runbook for a repo that already has the distribution pipeline in place (npm package, server.json, optional manifest.json, a tag-triggered release.yml, and — if containerised — a docker-publish.yml). Publish-only: npm + the official MCP registry + a GitHub release. Container redeploy is the optional appendix, not part of a normal release.

Auto-detect the target from the repo in the cwd: read package.json for name, mcpName, and the current version.

Bundled resource: bump.mjs sits next to this file — invoke it as node "<skill-dir>/bump.mjs" …, where <skill-dir> is wherever this skill lives (~/.claude/skills/release-mcp-version/, or as a plugin $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/skills/release-mcp-version/). The lockstep/online validator is check.mjs from the companion publish-mcp-server skill.

⚠️ Steps that need the user's explicit go-ahead

The harness will (correctly) block these; do not retry silently — pause and ask:

  1. Landing on main — a direct push to the default branch, or merging a PR you authored yourself. Ask the user to confirm, or have them merge in the GitHub UI.
  2. (Appendix only) a production container redeploy.

Everything else runs unattended, except the registry device-flow, where you surface a code + URL and the user approves in a browser.

Phase 0 — preflight

  • Confirm the cwd is the intended repo (node -p "require('./package.json').name").
  • Working tree clean (git status --short); on main or the release branch/PR.
  • Green locally: npm ci && npm run build && npm test.
  • Choose the semver bump from what changed: patch (fixes), minor (additive, backward-compatible), major (breaking). On 0.x, treat breaking as a minor.
  • Confirm the npm token is in THIS repo's Actions secrets — it's per-repo: gh api repos/<owner>/<repo>/actions/secrets --jq '.secrets[].name' should list NPM_TOKEN. A token in another repo does not apply and can't be copied (secrets are write-only). If missing: gh secret set NPM_TOKEN --repo <owner>/<repo> (paste at the prompt), or plan to npm publish by hand.

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 138 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6721debc6218

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release-mcp-version is a skill published in the GitHub repository selic/skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 146 tokens to every session and 1,830 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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